How much revenue did Space Guardian make?

$61–$164 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Guardian sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Guardian sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $61–$164 after Steam's cut $110–$252 before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Space Guardian out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Guardian's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–43k

best case 65k (Panzer Knights)

Games like Space Guardian

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–43k copies

≈ $6k–$150k after Steam's cut

from ~272 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Panzer Knights at ≈ 50k–81k copies, ≈ $341k–$916k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 507.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Anime (4 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Anime, priced around $25.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Panzer Knights 2021	Est. copies ≈ 50k–81k 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $341k–$916k after Steam's cut $619k–$1.4M before the cut	$24.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	TanksAnime
M.A.R.S. 2021	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Mixed	Third-Person ShooterPvE
Making it Home 2021	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut	$9.99	40 reviews Positive	BuildingSandbox
Careening 2025	Est. copies ≈ 99–161 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $218–$585 after Steam's cut $396–$900 before the cut	$7.99	4 reviews 4 user reviews	ActionRacing
Multi Turret Academy 2024	Est. copies ≈ 45k–73k 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $112k–$301k after Steam's cut $203k–$462k before the cut	$8.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessTanks
Relic Odyssey : Ruins Of Xantao 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before the cut	$14.99	112 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessController
EvoluShip 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut	$9.99	49 reviews Mostly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Tokyo Warfare Turbo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $51k–$138k after Steam's cut $93k–$212k before the cut	$14.99	432 reviews Very Positive	TanksAnime